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Quotes from A Treatise Upon Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration — Hector Berlioz

1803–1869 France

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I do not mean to say that it is necessary to imitate the mathematical regularity of the metronome, which would give the music thus executed an icy frigidity; I even doubt whether it would be possible to maintain this rigid uniformity for more than a few bars.

A Treatise Upon Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration (1858)

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